Gaza Held in Time

Two Voices. One Shattered Homeland. A Story the World Can't IgnoreGaza Held in Time: A Tapestry of Two Lives is a groundbreaking memoir written by Tareq AlSourani and Yara Nasser two Palestinian teenagers whose lives were torn apart by the 2023-2025 genocide. One fled to Egypt carrying the guilt of escape. The other stayed documenting Gaza's descent into famine mass graves and the quiet rebellion of dreams.Their alternating narratives-raw poetic and unflinchingly honest-weave together moments of piercing beauty (the scent of jasmine in Gaza's streets the taste of warm knafeh from Abu Al-Soud) with the horror of drone strikes forced displacement and the systematic erasure of their home.This is not just a book about war. It's about what it means to love a place the world is trying to destroy.Why This Book MattersA Firsthand Account of Genocide: Written in real time from inside and outside Gaza it shatters statistics with intimate devastating testimony.A Testament to Resilience: From cooking over open fires to smuggling words past censorship their creativity defies annihilation.A Call to Remember: We wrote so Gaza would not fade into headlines. This book is a lifeline to stories the world must not forget.Praise for Gaza Held in TimeDevastating... These could be our children. A brave and necessary book.-Yahia Lababidi Palestinian poetTheir words should haunt us forever.-Lynne Segal Birkbeck University of LondonA door left open for memory for return for rebuilding.-Aref Husseini author of Half-AshkenaziExcerpt: The Day Everything ChangedOctober 7 2023. I woke to the sky screaming. By noon the internet was gone. We played cards in silence waiting for the ceiling to collapse. When it didn't we realized: this was the new normal. Gaza was being unmade in front of us. -Yara NasserOrder NowAvailable in softcover and eBook.Join the Conversation#GazaHeldInTime - Share quotes reviews and solidarity.Amplify Gaza's Voices - Tag @DarajaPress & demand media coverage.The story is not over because the sea still calls our names.Order. Read. Remember.